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My first post on here looking forward to many long discussions and help. I have been undertaking a new tank my first saltwater a 75 gallon and its going great. But last week I purchased 3 blue-green chromis for the tank. All looked healthy and were doing great in the tank. Left for the g/f house for the night came back and two of the three were floating upside down, still alive but gilling and looking bad. I put them in a separate container to see if they would not come back, to no success. I noticed they both had what looked like a burn or something on their backs. I do have a Condylactis Anemone and have read about how they may sting and kill fish, but all the others have done fine in the tank. Has any one ever experienced this problem with these anemones, the anemone is really neat but the fish are much more important to me. Thanks.
75 gal. , 1 three stripe damsel, 2 blue-green chromis, 1 coral banded shrimp, 2 Ocellaris Clownfish, and 1 sailfin/algae blennie, loads of inverts.
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| Thats very strange. They very well may have been stung by the anenamy. They might have gone into shock after being stung and thats maybe why they were floating upside down still alive. There are so many factors that may have contributed to their deaths. Sorry about the loss.
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How long has your system been running?
So many species, so little money!
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NepsNsPlumr: tank has been going for about 2 months now with fish in it about 4 months since the whole cycling process. I have not lost any fish yet, I checked all my water parameters and they are good and one of the three survived so I am pretty sure it was not a acclimation problem. But there also may be another problem, I have noticed the one that is left like to hang out near the heater a lot and he appears to be getting what looks like a burn pattern near his tail too. Is it possible he is such a retard that he sits there and gets burnt???
75 gal. , 1 three stripe damsel, 2 blue-green chromis, 1 coral banded shrimp, 2 Ocellaris Clownfish, and 1 sailfin/algae blennie, loads of inverts.
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| I offer this as a possibility. Damsels are very aggressive fishes. Green Chromis are considered to be the least aggressive of the Damsels. Since all of the fish you list are Damsels, there's definitely the potential for bullying. What may be happening is that the other Damsels that have already established their territory in the tank, are doing just that. The Chromis may be being pushed to hang out at the heater to get away from the other Damsels. Rule of thumb is to introduce the least aggressive fish first and the most aggressive last. Since a lot of LFS still advise folks to cycle their tanks using Damsels (very hardy inexpensive fish) you end up in a situation where you start off backwards. Very aggressive first. Depending on what you ultimately want your fish stock to be, you may want to remove the damsels and start building your collection from scratch.
So many species, so little money!
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